(n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
(n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
(n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
(v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) Precipitin tests had considerable advantages over other methods of serological diagnosis of influenza.
(5) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(6) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(7) Examination of the pharmacokinetic profile of acitretin reveals its main advantage over etretinate.
(8) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(9) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(10) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(12) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(13) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(14) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(15) This indicates that the effective advantage of i.p.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) Advantages over other modes of treatment are discussed.
(18) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
(19) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(20) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
Outflank
Definition:
(v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Set aside the special case of Scotland, where, it would seem, Labour was utterly outflanked from the left rather than the right, and where the party’s recovery will need particular skills.
(2) The prime minister's early-morning initiative was in part designed to head off a Tory backbench revolt over any perceived privileges being given to Scotland , as well as to avoid being outflanked by Nigel Farage's Ukip.
(3) Tesco has stopped the rot in its UK business with the supermarket group reporting its first market share gain in six months as extra clubcard vouchers and "guerrilla" promotions on non-food ranges such as toys and clothing helped it to outflank rival Morrisons .
(4) Maliki, who many say was chosen because he was perceived to be weak and without a strong grassroots power base, has managed to outflank everyone: his Shia allies and foes, the Americans who wanted him removed at one time, even the Iranians.
(5) When his own backbenchers were joined by a much-lampooned Tory, Sir Tufton Beamish, Wilson decided to outflank them all by making his announcement.
(6) Along with a renewed self-confidence the Tory right is also fired up by the risk that Labour could outflank them on the issue.
(7) Similarly, by staking out an aggressive stance against Wall Street and supposedly job-killing foreign trade deals, Trump could also outflank Clinton on the left, in a time of deep economic insecurity.
(8) Osborne regards his move as a bold attempt to outflank Miliband and to draw a sharp distinction with the Tories' past history, when the party opposed the introduction of the minimum wage by the last Labour government in the late 1990s.
(9) Blue Labour thinking, with its emphasis on community-led solutions, is being touted as the party's version of the Big Society, and it's also possible that his emphasis on "family, faith and flag" will be a means of Labour outflanking the coalition on the right.
(10) The violence reportedly flared when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine.
(11) Just a party hierarchy and a party leadership who were trying to shore up their relationship with the rightwing press by ‘taking on’ their members, and trying to outflank the Tories on security,” she wrote.
(12) Since assuming the leadership of the Conservative party, David Cameron has been determined not to be outflanked by Labour on health.
(13) However, since protein gene product 9.5-immunoreactive nerves were not seen in the inflamed tissue it is probable that synovial growth outflanks neural growth and consequently as the disease progresses neural structures become restricted to deeper tissues.
(14) Many Liberals, out defending their seats, felt hopelessly outflanked in 2016 by the ALP organisers that they could see, and nervous about an operation they knew was comprehensively in the field, but wasn’t always in plain sight.
(15) It will still unsettle the ANC, which is terrified of being outflanked by populists.
(16) In a classic soft-power exercise that totally outflanked Beijing, Abe ordered the biggest overseas deployment of Japanese armed forces since 1945, backed by generous donations, to assist the Philippines after last month's super-typhoon disaster.
(17) The critic John Berger writes of her work: “Its aim is to outwit nonsense by outflanking it.
(18) Some suspect that the referendum is a means of distracting the electorate from more pressing issues, and of outflanking Hungary’s largest opposition party, the far-right Jobbik .
(19) May’s response appears to be to try to outflank Leadsom to the right on the issue of immigration.
(20) George Osborne has launched an audacious attempt to outflank Ed Miliband on the cost of living by calling for an above-inflation rise in the national minimum wage to restore it to its value before the financial crash in 2008.